Well when I find a book she likes (a graphic novel like Smile, or Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden) she will read the whole thing start to finish. She walked around with the book Smile for a week after reading it, and wanted to read all the other graphic novels associated with the writer. So I don't know that there is a reading challenge, because when she finds a book she loves she does love it. I also don't want to make too big a deal about it because I don't want her to decide she has a reading problem. BUT she is reading at grade level, and I don't understand why.
The other day, I just told her that I know she didn't like sitting and reading, but it was part of her homework (she is supposed to read for 20 minutes a day) and I would help her try different books to find one she liked and that she could sit on her yoga ball (we have an exercise ball that we use when they keep tipping their chairs, we replace chairs with the ball) if it was getting "too sitty" for her.
So far she really liked Flora and Ulysses, but at one point said she wished they would get to the point (whatever that means) but she said she did really love that book. I tried to get her to read The Phantom Tollbooth but she doesn't like to read it, although she enjoys when I read it to her. The only other concerns I have is underachievement related to total lack of interest in school (and she makes careless mistakes). I'm also concerned that it falls into this pattern of "extremely bright but does not apply herself" pattern that I remember well from my childhood… the difference is at her age I was reading anything I could get my hands on.
Last edited by LAF; 05/10/16 11:01 AM.
